Month July 2005

“Why should placing bombs be illegal and bombing civilians from the air not be?” — Martin Varsavsky, via his blog , 7/7/05 Link – isen [isen.blog]

The Group of Eight summit bowed to U.S. pressure on Friday by approving a declaration on climate change that avoided taking any concrete steps to fight global warming, such as setting targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. All…

Investigators have concluded that the bombs that ripped through three subway trains and a bus on Thursday were relatively crude devices containing less than 10 pounds of explosives each. That finding supports a theory gaining momentum among the authorities that…

Robert Fisk: The reality of this barbaric bombing If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us?  “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes,…

UN peacekeepers in Haiti have stormed a slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing armed gang members loyal to the country’s ousted president. “Peacekeepers”?